By Dr Ruby E. Stephens

Journal articles

Gallagher RV; Andres SE; Stephens RE; Hewitt C; Wintle BA; van Leeuwen S; Smith B; Adams VM, 2026, 'Impacts of the renewable energy transition on global plant diversity: A review', Plants People Planet, 8, pp. 87 - 115, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.70082

Stephens RE; Sauquet H; Laugier B; Gosper CR; Gallagher RV, 2025, 'Birds, Bats or Climate? Eucalypt Floral Traits Reflect Pollination Over Abiotic Environment', Ecology and Evolution, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71449

Gallagher R; Roger E; Packer J; Slatyer C; Rowley J; Cornwell W; Ens E; Legge S; Simpfendorfer C; Stephens R; Mesaglio T, 2025, 'Incorporating citizen science into IUCN Red List assessments', Conservation Biology, 39, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14329

Stephens RE; Gallagher RV; Méndez M; Sauquet H, 2024, 'Zygomorphic flowers last longer: The evolution of floral symmetry and floral longevity', Biology Letters, 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0082

Wenk EH; Cornwell WK; Fuchs A; Kar F; Monro AM; Sauquet H; Stephens RE; Falster DS, 2024, 'APCalign: an R package workflow and app for aligning and updating flora names to the Australian Plant Census', Australian Journal of Botany, 72, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/bt24014

Stephens RE; Gallagher RV; Dun L; Cornwell W; Sauquet H, 2023, 'Insect pollination for most of angiosperm evolutionary history', New Phytologist, 240, pp. 880 - 891, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.18993

Stephens RE; Sauquet H; Guerin GR; Jiang M; Falster D; Gallagher RV, 2022, 'Climate shapes community flowering periods across biomes', Journal of Biogeography, 49, pp. 1205 - 1218, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14375

Falster D; Gallagher R; Wenk E; Wright I; Indiarto D; Baxter C; Andrew SC; Lawson J; Allen S; Fuchs A; Adams MA; Ahrens CW; Alfonzetti M; Angevin T; Atkin OK; Auld T; Baker A; Bean A; Blackman CJ; Bloomfield K; Bowman D; Bragg J; Brodribb TJ; Buckton G; Burrows G; Caldwell E; Camac J; Carpenter R; Catford JA; Cawthray GR; Cernusak LA; Chandler G; Chapman AR; Cheal D; Cheesman AW; Chen S-C; Choat B; Clinton B; Clode P; Coleman H; Cornwell WK; Cosgrove M; Crisp M; Cross E; Crous KY; Cunningham S; Curtis E; Daws MI; DeGabriel JL; Denton MD; Dong N; Duan H; Duncan DH; Duncan RP; Duretto M; Dwyer JM; Edwards C; Esperon-Rodriguez M; Evans JR; Everingham SE; Firn J; Fonseca CR; French BJ; Frood D; Funk JL; Geange SR; Ghannoum O; Gleason SM; Gosper CR; Gray E; Groom PK; Gross C; Guerin G; Guja L; Hahs AK; Harrison MT; Hayes PE; Henery M; Hochuli D; Howell J; Huang G; Hughes L; Huisman J; Ilic J; Jagdish A; Jin D; Jordan G; Jurado E; Kasel S; Kellermann J; Kohout M; Kooyman RM; Kotowska MM; Lai HR; Laliberté E; Lambers H; Lamont BB; Lanfear R; van Langevelde F; Laughlin DC; Laugier-Kitchener B-A; Lehmann CER; Leigh A; Leishman MR; Lenz T; Lepschi B; Lewis JD; Lim F; Liu U; Lord J; Lusk CH; Macinnis-Ng C; McPherson H; Manea A; Mayfield M; McCarthy JK; Meers T; van der Merwe M; Metcalfe D; Milberg P; Mokany K; Moles AT; Moore BD; Moore N; Morgan JW; Morris W; Muir A; Munroe S; Nicholson Á; Nicolle D; Nicotra AB; Niinemets Ü; North T; O’Reilly-Nugent A; O’Sullivan OS; Oberle B; Onoda Y; Ooi MKJ; Osborne CP; Paczkowska G; Pekin B; Pereira CG; Pickering C; Pickup M; Pollock LJ; Poot P; Powell JR; Power SA; Prentice IC; Prior L; Prober SM; Read J; Reynolds V; Richards AE; Richardson B; Roderick ML; Rosell JA; Rossetto M; Rye B; Rymer PD; Sams MA; Sanson G; Schmidt S; Schulze E-D; Sendall K; Sinclair S; Smith B; Smith R; Soper F; Sparrow B; Standish R; Staples TL; Taseski G; Thomas F; Tissue DT; Tjoelker MG; Tng DYP; Tomlinson K; Turner NC; Veneklaas E; Venn S; Vesk P; Vlasveld C; Vorontsova MS; Warren C; Weerasinghe LK; Westoby M; White M; Williams N; Wills J; Wilson PG; Yates C; Zanne AE; Ziemińska K, 2021, 'AusTraits – a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora', Scientific Data, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-01006-6

Gloag R; Smith JP; Stephens RE; Heard TA; Beekman M, 2021, 'Australian stingless bees detect odours left at food sources by nestmates, conspecifics and honey bees', Insectes Sociaux, 68, pp. 151 - 159, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00040-021-00823-7

Gloag RS; Christie JR; Ding G; Stephens RE; Buchmann G; Oldroyd BP, 2019, 'Workers' sons rescue genetic diversity at the sex locus in an invasive honey bee population', Molecular Ecology, 28, pp. 1585 - 1592, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.15031

Stephens RE; Beekman M; Gloag R, 2017, 'The upside of recognition error? Artificially aggregated colonies of the stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria tolerate high rates of worker drift', Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 121, pp. 258 - 266, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/BIOLINNEAN/BLW048

Sewell T; Stephens RE; Dominey-Howes D; Bruce E; Perkins-Kirkpatrick S, 2016, 'Disaster declarations associated with bushfires, floods and storms in New South Wales, Australia between 2004 and 2014', Scientific Reports, 6, pp. 36369, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep36369

Preprints

Wenk E; Cornwell W; Fuchs A; Kar F; Monro A; Sauquet H; Stephens R; Falster DS, APCalign: an R package workflow and app for aligning and updating flora names to the Australian Plant Census, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.02.578715

Stephens RE; Sauquet H; Guerin GR; Jiang M; Falster D; Gallagher RV, Climate shapes flowering periods across plant communities, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.10.10.463841

Wenk EH; Cornwell WK; Stephens RE; Coleman D; Mesaglio T; Towers I; Yang S; Falster DS, Contrasting climate signals between native and introduced annual and perennial floras, http://dx.doi.org/10.64898/2026.07.31.741935

Stephens RE; Gallagher RV; Dun L; Cornwell W; Sauquet H, Insects pollinated flowering plants for most of angiosperm evolutionary history, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.31.526530

de Frens D; Bakker FT; Sauquet H; Stephens RE; Onstein RE, Rampant transitions between dispersal syndromes during angiosperm evolution, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.26.656093

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